5 Thing to Know: Time-Lapse Video of Storm Outages

1) Town and School Meeting Watch: Tonight the Finance Committee is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Town Hall.  Agenda items include a town budget update from the town administrator and assistant town administrator.

2) Newsbit of the Day:  Kevin Giannini of the National Grid agency Schwartz MSL sent us this video showing that Swampscott did pretty well compared to other parts of the state during Storm Nemo. There were some outages in town but they never rose above 10 percent of National Grid customers, he said.

3) Swampscott Scholars: Perri Brandalise was among the students from the University of Massachusetts Boston who made the Fall 2012 Dean's List:

4) Weather Watch: Mostly sunny, with a high near 32. Breezy, with a northwest wind 17 to 20 mph.

5) Big Blue Watch: The Northeastern Conference girls' and boys' all-star games will take place Friday, Feb. 22, at Swampscott High. The girls play at 6 p.m.; and the boys play at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for students and senior citizens. No passes accepted.